TV footage shows Saddam's body

(Agencies)
Updated: 2006-12-31 08:46

A frame grab from Iraqi state televison shows a noose being placed around former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's neck December 30, 2006. Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity at dawn on Saturday, a dramatic, violent end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before he was toppled by a U.S. invasion four years ago.

A frame grab from Iraqi state televison shows a noose being placed around former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's neck December 30, 2006. Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity at dawn on Saturday, a dramatic, violent end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before he was toppled by a U.S. invasion four years ago. [Reuters/Iraqi State Televison ]


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